Shovels in the ground marked a new era in bus transportation. New York and New Jersey elected leaders were on hand for what will eventually be the new Midtown bus terminal. It will replace the current bus terminal built 75 years ago, transforming it from an eyesore to eye-popping.

The Port Authority finally broke ground on its new $10 billion Midtown bus terminal Thursday, a decades-in-the-making project to transform one of New York’s most antiquated and heavily used transit hubs into a modern station.

It was a day 11 years in the making. Work to begin building a replacement for the disliked Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown began Thursday when officials broke ground on a $10 billion replacement.